Partita follows a young Appalachian woman with the chops to make it as a classical pianist. It was somewhat inspired by Barbara Kingsolver's love of classical music and her restrictive hand condition.
Before she won the Pulitzer for Demon Copperhead, Kingsolver wasn't sure her neighbors knew what she did for a living. Her ...
Her recent work, including her latest, Partita, is overly concerned with defending the South instead of writing for it.
In 'Partita,' Pulitzer Prize-winning Barbara Kingsolver weaves classical music and family tragedy into an intimate, resonant ...
The sex writing threatens to throw the novel off-kilter, but there are rich rewards in this tale of music and middle-aged compromises ...
NEW YORK — Barbara Kingsolver, this year’s recipient of a National Book Award medal for literary achievement, remembers well the years she couldn’t imagine receiving such honors. “I just felt this ...
The thing about calling Barbara Kingsolver a political novelist is that she really wishes you wouldn't. Both readers and critics have done it for years; now it's all wrapped up in the narrative of ...
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